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Friday, March 31, 2023

Waxing Poetic

The opening page of New Defenders #150 included the first stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To the Moon." Written in the early nineteenth century, the short poem set the tone for the heroes' outer space encounter with the Star-Thief. The full poem appears below.

  

To the Moon

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,—
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object like its constancy?

Thou chosen sister of the Spirit,
That gazes on thee till in thee it pities …

The illustration above comes from New Defenders $150 (Dec. 1985).

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